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• Concerned with activities involved in ensuring that software is delivered on time and on schedule and in accordance with the requirements of the organisations developing and procuring the software.
• Project management is needed because software development is always subject to budget and schedule constraints that are set by the organisation developing the software.
Software Project Management
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Project Management
• Activities:– Selection of team members– Project costing– Project planning and scheduling– Writing system proposal– Control by monitoring plan against activities– Motivating Team members
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Project planning
• Probably the most time-consuming project management activity.
• Continuous activity from initial concept through to system delivery. Plans must be regularly revised as new information becomes available.
• Various different types of plan may be developed to support the main software project plan that is concerned with schedule and budget.
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The project plan
• The project plan sets out:– The resources available to the project;– The work breakdown;– A schedule for the work.
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Activity organization• Activities in a project should be organised
to produce tangible outputs for management to judge progress.
• Milestones are the end-point of a process activity.
• Deliverables are project results delivered to customers.
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Project scheduling• Split project into tasks and estimate time and
resources required to complete each task.• Organize tasks concurrently to make optimal
use of workforce.• Minimize task dependencies to avoid delays
caused by one task waiting for another to complete.
• Dependent on project managers intuition and experience.
• Adding people to a late project makes it later because of communication overheads
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The project scheduling process
Estimate resourcesfor activities
Identify activitydependencies
Identifyactivities
Allocate peopleto activities
Softwarerequirements
Activity chartsand bar charts
Create projectcharts
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Scheduling tools
• Gantt chart: Shows activities over a period of time as bars on a graph
• PERT-Program Evaluation and Review Technique– PERT diagrams show precedence, activities that must
be completed before the next activities may be started.
– Once a diagram is drawn it is possible to identify the critical path, the longest path through the activities.
– Monitoring critical path will identify shortest time to complete the project.
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Bar charts and activity networks• Graphical notations used to illustrate the
project schedule.• Show project breakdown into tasks. Tasks
should not be too small. They should take about a week or two.
• Activity charts show task dependencies and the the critical path.
• Bar charts show schedule against calendar time.
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Gantt Chart Example
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PERT Diagram Example
start
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Finish
T10
M7T5
T7
M2T4
M5
T8
4/7/03
8 days
14/7/03 15 days
4/8/03
15 days
25/8/03
7 days
5/9/03
10 days
19/9/03
15 days
11/8/03
25 days
10 days
20 days
5 days25/7/03
15 days
25/7/03
18/7/03
10 days
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M1 T3T9
M6
T11
M8
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